Cotton-picker.



L. c. STUKENBORG.

GOTTON PIOKBB. APPLIOATIOI; rum) MAY 1, 1914.

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L. G. STUKENBORG. COTTON PIGKER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 1, 1914.

Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

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L. 0. STUKENBORG.

SUTTON PIGKER.

APPLIUATIOH FILED MAY 1, 1914v Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

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COTTON-PICKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

Application filed May 1, 1914. Serial No. 835,707.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS C. S'rUKENBoRG',

a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Covin'gton, in the county of Kenton and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Pickers, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to cotton pickers and particularly to novel means for picking cotton by'brushes which remove the cotton from the stalk, the said brushes heingassociated with novel means for conveying cotton to a receptacle or to a position where it can be dislodged from the conveying means into the receptacle.

An object of this invention is to provide novelmeans for operating brushes designed for removal of cotton from the stalk as well as for the operation of a conveyer for removing cotton from the said brushes, so that the said cotton may be carried into such relation to a receptacle that it may be dislodged from the said conveyer and caused to fall into the said receptacle, and a further object of this invention is to so mount the operating parts that they may be transported or moved in a field where the cotton is to be harvested.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in thedetails of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detaiLreference will be had to' the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several ,views and in which- Figure 1 illustrates a view in elevation of a cotton picking machine embodying the invention; Fig. 2 illustrates a view in elevation showing the side of the machine opposite to that shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 illustrates an enlarged detail'sectional view of the picker head; Fig. 4 illustrates an enlarged detail view showing the face of the picker head;

Fig. 5 illustrates an enlarged detail sectional view of a brush associated with a conveyer, showing the means forremoving the cotton from the conveyer; Fig. 6 illustrates a sectional view of one of the tubes and the conveyer therein; and Fig. 7 illustrates a detail view of a portion of the driving means for the brush for removing the cotton from the conveyer.

In these drawings 10 denote traction wheels which "are associated with trucks of appropriate type, the said trucks supporting the bed or receptacle 11' which forms the support for the operating mechanism and a container for cotton deposited therein by the cotton picking mechanism.

The bed 11 has the brackets 12 thereon at opposite sides, said brackets forming bear ings for the shaft 13. A fly wheel 14 is car ried bythe shaft 13 and a hand operated wheel 15 is mounted on the shaft, said wheel 15 being provided with a handle 16 by which theshaft is rotated. A sprocket wheel 17 is also mounted on the shaft 13 and engages a sprocket chain 18 which operates over a sprocket wheel 19 on the shaft 20, thus driving the said shaft 20. A spur gear 21 is rotatable Avith the shaft 20 and the spur gear engages a pinion 22 on the shaft 23, thus communicating motion to the said shaft 23. The said bed further constitutes a support for housing 24, and the housing acts as a support for any appropriate bearings for the several shafts 20, 23 and 25, the latter of which carries a brush 26 adapted to remove cotton from a conveyer (to he presently described).

The shaft 22 has a sprocket wheel 27 mounted on it, which engages and drives the conveyer chain 28, the said conveyer chain having a series of spurs 29 thereon which are adapted to engage cotton and carry it in the spout 30 and the spout 30 is connected to the picker head 31. A spout 32 is also connected to the picker head and its inner end terminates in a flared chute 33 and an apron 34 which latter'acts as a guide fordirecting the conveyer chain to the chute 33, the chute in turn, of course, directing the chain to the spout 32. The spouts are preferably flexible and may be supported in any appropriate way. The bed 11 is furthermore providedwith a bracket 36 which may be manipulated by an operator for pushing the truck.

. The head 31 has pairs of standards 37 and 38, the standards 37 including journal bearings for a shaft 39 and the standards 38 including journal bearings for the shaft 40. A brush 41 is mounted on the shaft 39 and a brush 42 is mounted on the shaft 40, the

said brushes being of such diameter as to in.

sure the bristles of one brush coacting with the bristles of the other brush for'removing cotton and carrying it inwardly of the head where it is engaged by the spurs of the conveying chain and carried through the spout 30.

As a. means for rotating the brushes in opposite directions simultaneously, the shaft 39has a gear wheel 43 mounted-on it, and the shaft 40 has a gear wheel 44 which meshes with the gear wheel 43. Furthermore, the gear wheel 44 is in mesh with a ear'wheel 45 which latter is mounted one s aft 46 jonrnaled in the head 31. A beveled gear wheel 47 is mounted on the shaft 46'within the head and the said gear wheel 47 is engaged and driven by the beveled wheel 48 mounted on a shaft 49. The shaft 49 has .a sprocket wheel 50'driven by'the conveyer chain and thus motion is communicatcd to the shaft 49 and through the gearing just described to the brushes 41 and 42. For the purpose of driving the brush 26, the shaft 22 has a pinion 51 meshing with a gear wheel 52,which gear wheel is formed with the sprocket wheel 53. The combined gear Wheel .52 and sprocket wheel 53 are mounted on a stub shaft 54 and the sprocket Wheel 53 is engaged by a sprocket chain 55 fordriying the sprocket wheel 56 of the brush shaft 25, so that through these power transmitting-means, the brush is rotated in the direction of the dart, shown in Fig. 2. From an inspection of the drawing and .from'the foregoing specification, it will .be obvious that the hand wheel is rotated, com- ,iiiunicating. motion to the shafts 20, 23 and 25, through appropriate connections through these shafts and as the shaft 23 has a sprocket wheel 27 thereon which is engaged'by the conveyer chain, the said conveyer chain is operated through the head so that when 'cotton is removed from the stalk by therotating brushes 41 and 42, the spurs ion the conveyer chain remove the cotton from the said brushes and carry it from the s'pout30 to the brush 26, which brush removes the cotton from the spurs and delposits it in the bed 11 as the conveyer chain travels around the sprocket'wheel 27 which S guided the apron 34'jor by other appro- P to'the head 31 through the spout 32;" The sprocket wheel 50 isutilized for the purpose of supporting the conveyor chain at h a'er'ees 'a as fu thei im a for t e v 'iate means to the chute 33 and then transmission of power to the brush driving gearing contained in or associated with the head.

I claim- 1. In a cotton picker, a picker head having brushes rotatably mounted -.therein,

means for rotating the brushes, a conveyer having spurs for removing cotton from the brushes and conveying it, means for causing eluding oppositely rotatable brushes, a con- I veye'r chain, a sprocket wheel mounted in the head for the engagement of the conveyer chain, said conveyer chain having spurs thereon for engaging the brushes and dislodging cotton therefrom, means for transmitting the motion of the conveyer chain to the brushes, spouts in which the conveyer chain travels, a brush mounted to rotate in engagement with the conveyer chain for removing deposits of cotton therefrom, and means for operating the conveyer chain and brush in unison. y

3. In a cotton picker. a picker head, brushes on parallel "shafts in the head, a Wheel in the head, a shaft for the said'wheel extending at right angles to the axes of the brushes and at a point between'the' said brushes, a conveyer chain traveling over the wheel and in operative relation to the brushes, cotton engaging spurs for contacting'the brushes carried bythe' chain, means by which the motion of the conveyer chain is communicated tothe brushes, flexible spouts in which the conveyer chain travels, means for guiding the conveyer chain to one of the spouts, a brush adapted for the re-' moval of cotton from the conveyer, and

means for operating the conveyer and brush. In testimony whereof, I aifix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS G. STUKENBORG.

Witnesses:- I

J; T. TONNIES, :J." A. HnnLFnLD.

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